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- proper noun A
channel separatingAnglesey from mainlandWales
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland
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Examples
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It was near twelve o'clock when they arrived at the mouth of the Menai Strait, which is about five miles from Beaumaris.
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King Edward, with his army, marching from Worcester to the Menai Strait, crossed it — near to where the wonderful tubular iron bridge now, in days so different, makes a passage for railway trains — by a bridge of boats that enabled forty men to march abreast.
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It is a beautiful little town situated on the southern side of the Menai Strait at nearly its western extremity.
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It had two massive masonry towers and was hung on immense iron chains and it crossed the Menai Strait to the island of Anglesey, with a main span of nearly six hundred feet.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The most frequently quoted remark was one made by the great English engineer Robert Stephenson, builder of the famous Britannia railroad bridge, a tubular iron bridge, over the Menai Strait the trains ran through a succession of enormous iron boxes set on stone piers.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The great girder bridges over the Menai Strait and at Saltash near
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The Suspension Bridge at Niagara is an artificial wonder as great, in its degree, as the natural miracle of the mighty cataract which thunders forever at its side; while no triumph of inventive economy could more aptly lead the imaginative stranger into the picturesque beauties of Wales than the extraordinary tubular bridge across the Menai Strait.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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One of the earliest chain suspension bridges was erected at Menai Strait by Thomas Thelford, and at the same time Brunel sunk his first shaft for the Thames tunnel.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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At Newcastle a high level bridge was erected, while at Conway and at the Menai Strait work was begun on two of the greatest tubular bridges of England.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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Arthur's Quoit near Swansea, the dolmen of Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire, and that of Plas Newydd on the Menai Strait: in Anglesey they are quite common.
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